Everything that fans could want—and everything that makes blackgaze stand out—is contained within Alcest's Spiritual Instinct.
Alcest's most accessible work to date doesn't sacrifice the brilliant musicianship that the band has demonstrated over their past two recordings. In fact, Les Voyages de l'Âme is equally as powerful as those albums.
Stéphane Paut comes closer than ever to perfecting his gorgeous mix of shoegaze and metal on Alcest's second album, Écailles de Lune.
Alcest's Souvenirs d'un autre monde alternates dreamy interludes and withering blasts of sound. Like recent Jesu, this is a shoe-gazing, post-rocking take on metal, if it is metal at all.
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